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Alachua County attractions you can visit for free, from a world-class art museum to the world's largest occupied bat houses. Hours and status kept fresh.
A restored rail yard turned 32-acre city park with a splash pad, a big playground, boardwalks over a restored pond, and the Cade Museum on site. The green heart of downtown Gainesville, free to enter.
The University of Florida's art museum, with collections spanning Asian, African, modern and contemporary art plus a dedicated photography wing and a garden courtyard. Admission is always free.
Alachua County's history museum, with rotating exhibits on Gainesville's past, a research library, and one of the oldest houses in the city on its grounds. Free to visit.
A 416-acre city nature park with more than six miles of trails through sandhill, flatwoods and cypress domes, and one of the last stands of fire-dependent longleaf pine woodland left in the area. A ten-acre Living History Farm on the grounds interprets daily life on an 1870 Florida farm. Free to visit, and dogs are not allowed anywhere in the park.
The world's largest occupied bat houses. Around sunset, hundreds of thousands of bats stream out over Lake Alice in a single ribbon, one of Gainesville's most distinctive free spectacles. Bring a folding chair and get there before dark.